Meetings To Be Held Regarding New Sealaska Land Requests in the Tongass
By
Kim Marquis
Juneau Empire
March 02, 2010
Sealaska Bill Hearings to be held soon by Murkowski and others.
Meetings on Sealaska Corp.'s lands legislation are set to begin in the region next week.
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski set the meetings up to address growing criticism from the southern part of the region over Senate Bill 881, which would transfer about 85,000 acres of public land into private ownership.
Sealaska, the region's Native corporation, plans to harvest timber on most of the land.
Residents on Prince of Wales Island say the harvests would ruin their subsistence lifestyles.
